"miscontinue" meaning in All languages combined

See miscontinue on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: miscontinues [present, singular, third-person], miscontinuing [participle, present], miscontinued [participle, past], miscontinued [past]
Etymology: From mis- + continue. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|mis|continue}} mis- + continue Head templates: {{en-verb}} miscontinue (third-person singular simple present miscontinues, present participle miscontinuing, simple past and past participle miscontinued)
  1. To continue wrongly.

Inflected forms

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      "form": "miscontinued",
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          "ref": "1795, William Hawkins, Thomas Leach, A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown, page 169:",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1887, The Publications of the Selden Society, page 69:",
          "text": "If two parties are at issue in a praecipe quod reddat, and upon part they are at issue by a panel and upon part they are at issue upon a record – such as bastardy certified, or some other estoppel – and the process is continued against the jury but no day is given for brining in the record, everything is discontinued and not merely miscontinued.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "1981, Marang - Volumes 3-6, page 13:",
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          "ref": "2001, Crispin Wright, Rails to Infinity: Essays on Themes from Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, page 132:",
          "text": "Now, the application of each of these predicates to X will be defeasible if his subsequent performance is inadequate when measured by a standard implicit in the things he didn't explicitly think about — if he goes on to misuse E, miscontinue the series, cannot whistle the tune, rejects Y's continuing '1002' after '1000' or shows he doesn't understand the rules of chess.",
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